Minor Problem with ddclient

Hello

I plan to connect to my server (Suse 11.3) as a “Road Warrior” via OpenVPN, which is already set up and working. Because I do not have
a static IP I am using DynDNS as a workaround. I have installed and configured ddclient (Version 3.8.0-9.1) but if I want to start it the rc-script
always outputs “Starting ddclient daemon : failed”. Despite this message the daemon seems to be starting as it should - it is running according to “ps aux” and
there is a message in /etc/var/log/messages which says that the IP was updated successfully. I probably could leave it at that but I want to make sure that
there is no other underlying problem which will come back to haunt me when I am on the road and trying to connect. Any suggestions? My configuration is as follows:

/etc/sysconfig/ddclient
DDCLIENT_INTERVALL=“300”
DDCLIENT_OPTIONS="-verbose"

/etc/ddclient.conf
syslog=yes
mail-failure=stefan
pid=/var/run/ddclient.pid
use=if, if=ppp0
login=XXXXX
password=XXXXX
protocol=dyndns2
server=members.dyndns.org
XXXXX.dyndns.org

Yours sincerely
Stefan Malte Schumacher

On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:26:03 +0000, smschumacher wrote:

> I have installed and
> configured ddclient (Version 3.8.0-9.1) but if I want to start it the
> rc-script
> always outputs “Starting ddclient daemon : failed”. Despite this message
> the daemon seems to be starting as it should - it is running according
> to “ps aux” and
> there is a message in /etc/var/log/messages which says that the IP was
> updated successfully. I probably could leave it at that but I want to
> make sure that

If the IP was updated successfully and you can confirm that dyndns is
showing the correct IP address, then it sounds like it’s working to me.

You might have to dig into the rc script to determine why it’s reporting
a failure to start in order to diagnose this issue.

Jim


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